A vast collection of 1,300 unusual items from the iconic Supreme skateboard brand has gone up for auction in Hong Kong. Footage shot on Saturday shows the wide variety of merchandise, all featuring the iconic red background and white letters of the Supreme logo. Collector Yukio Takahashi is selling his huge collection in an online auction through Sotheby's and the items will be on display in Hong Kong's HART Hall until the auction closes on Tuesday. The New York based Supreme was established in 1994 and while it is chiefly a skateboard and clothing brand, it has also sold a wide variety of items such as the punching bag, camping equipment and pinball machine seen in the footage, many of which have been extensively resold as cult collectibles. Takahashi's collection, dubbed 'The Supreme Vault 1998-2018,' which he started in 2011, ranges from nunchucks, valued at HKD4,500 (€510, $570) to a motorcycle, valued at up to HKD70,000 (€7,950, $8,900). The supreme pinball machine is valued at HKD240,000 (€27,300, $30,500).

Tokyo clothing brand Senscommon has collaborated with textiles company Uchino Japan to launch a clothing collection made using activated charcoal. The On Journey collection of minimalist clothing features a T-shirt, shorts, a shirt, a cardigan, a robe and trousers. The pieces have clean silhouettes with pockets and metal detailing. The clothing is made using an active charcoal fibre technology developed by Uchino Japan, where Ubame oak charcoal is ground into a powder and kneaded into loose cotton and rayon fibres, before being spun into a yarn. For the collection, which focuses on the "wellbeing and comfort" of the wearer, Senscommon selected a double-sided charcoal fibre which has a natural dark grey colour and a texture similar to "sweatshirt material". "It has a crisp and matte, loosely woven gauze exterior and a soft pile inside layer that feels like a second skin. Naturally greyed by the charcoal, the process uses no chemicals," Senscommon told Dezeen. Self-purifying qualities within the charcoal ...

State-run power giant NTPC Saturday posted a 48.7 per cent jump in its standalone net profit at Rs 4,350.32 crore for the March quarter compared to the year-ago period mainly on the back of lower expenses. The company's standalone net profit in January-March 2018 was Rs 2,925.59 crore, an NTPC statement said. The company's total income slipped to Rs 22,545.61 crore in the March quarter from 23,617.83 crore year ago. Expenses also decline to Rs 19,008.44 crore in the quarter from Rs 20,229.26 crore. For 2018-19, standalone net profit rose by 13.60 per cent to Rs 11,749.89 crore compared to Rs 10,343.17 crore in the previous year. Total income was Rs 92,179.56 crore in 2018-19, up from Rs 85,207.95 crore during the previous year. Consolidated net profit of the firm rose to Rs 12,633.45 crore in 2018-19 from Rs 10,501.50 crore in the previous fiscal. Total consolidated income also rose to Rs 97,537.34 crore in the last fiscal from Rs 89,641.59 in 2017-18. The Board of Directors of NTPC ..

Replacing something like the Volkswagen Golf R is surely an unenviable task. Even after five years on sale, the current R is an outrageously competitive hot hatch that the likes of Mercedes-AMG and BMW M are only just catching up with. It's the task that lies at the door of Jost Capito, though, but one his vast experience of motorsports and performance car development ought to complement well. "The Golf GTI is a tiger," he therefore somewhat unexpectedly tells TG, "whereas the Golf R is a black panther. More subtle, something you find easier to approach and want to get close to." The anthropomorphic approach comes from his time working at Ford, where he likened cars as animals to ensure the dozens of people working on its hot hatchbacks were all reading from the same page without the need for lengthy descriptions. "The Focus ST was a dolphin, the Focus RS a shark. When you have lots of different teams working on the same car it's the best way to make sure they're all working towards the same thing. It's ...

Ghosting is no longer limited to just the online dating realm–more and more job candidates are ghosting potential employers during the hiring process. Ghosting: a term for disappearing or going missing in action without any explanation. You've probably heard it in the realms of the online dating world, where a romantic interest would cease all communication after a few dates. But it seems like it's starting to creep into the professional space. As Fast Company previously reported, professional ghosting can mean anything from neglecting emails to not paying an invoice (and avoiding all contact with the contractor). Read Full Story